Senior Software Developer - Data Platform

Redfin is revolutionizing the $75 billion real estate industry. We use data, beautiful software, and innovative design to put customers first at every step in the home-buying and selling process. Get ready to dive headfirst into our award-winning website, mobile apps and data platforms, solving complex business problems in a highly visible, customer-centric way. If you value doing great work in a collaborative environment, join our team!

The Data Ingestion and Infrastructure team builds scalable infrastructure, large-batch data workflows, and modern data lake platforms that power Redfin’s large-scale data ecosystem.

The team leads the integration of third-party datasets such as WalkScore.com and develops unified data merging platforms to standardize, reconcile, and consolidate heterogeneous data sources into trusted, production-grade datasets.

In close partnership with Machine Learning teams, we enable reliable, high-quality data pipelines that support advanced modeling, analytics, and product innovation, strengthening Redfin’s position as the most trusted real estate site in the US.

The Role

• Work on Redfin’s data platforms, building scalable data pipelines and tooling to keep Redfin’s inventory faster and higher quality than our competitors

• Contribute to the development and modernization of the company’s Airflow platform to support reliable, large-scale batch workflows

• Lead efforts to modernize WalkScore.com into a unified common data platform integrated with Redfin’s ecosystem

• Help design and build Redfin’s enterprise data lake to support scalable storage, processing, and analytics

• Build products and tools that drive some of the company’s most critical metrics and impact revenue growth

• Using and evangelizing approved AI code generation tools to document, architect, and create code

About You

• You are an experienced developer with 5+ years of experience developing large data processing platforms.

• You have experience developing large scale applications backed by relational and non-relational databases - we utilize Kafka, Java, Python, Postgres, SQL, K8s, Jenkins, Snowflake, Spark, and Airflow in AWS.

• Experience operating, maintaining, and modernizing legacy systems (Ubuntu, MySQL, Node.js, Python), with a focus on improving scalability, reliability, and performance.

• You have built tooling to help monitor, maintain and update essential data

• You’re curious and a life-long learner: you’re willing to take risks and champion new ideas.

• You will exercise thought leadership in designing, architecting, and implementing solutions for difficult challenges faced by your partner teams

• You are a teacher and a mentor: you have the leadership skills (and the patience) to improve the developers around you.

• You live and breathe a culture of quality data, service to customers, operational partners and teammates.

• Above all, you share a passion for our mission to create a fundamentally better real estate experience for our customers.

• Deep knowledge of at least one AI code generation tool, such as GitHub CoPilot, Anthropic Claude Code, Cursor, or similar

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation packages with a salary, bonuses, and restricted stock grants

• Generous benefits, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, fully paid family leave, and paid vacation.

• A high-growth company, providing opportunities for continued professional development and growth

• You'll get far more responsibility than at a big company, while at the same time far less stress than you will find in a 2-person garage startup.

Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, Massachusetts, Colorado, New York City, New Jersey, Jersey City, California, D.C. and Washington candidates only:

The position may also be eligible for an annual bonus, incentives, and other employment-related benefits including, but not limited to, medical, dental, and vision benefits, 401K retirement plan, and paid time off. More information regarding these benefits and others can be found here. The information regarding compensation and other benefits included in this paragraph is only an estimate and is subject to revision from time to time as the Company, in its sole and exclusive discretion, deems appropriate. The Company may determine during its review of the proposed compensation and benefits provided for this position that the compensation and benefits for such position should be reduced. In no event will the Company reduce the compensation for the position to a level below the applicable jurisdictional minimum wage rate for the position.

Redfin is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive workforce.

An inclusive culture is vital to Redfin's mission of making real estate better for people from all walks of life. We’re proud that Redfin is a place where different points of view and backgrounds are encouraged and respected. We constantly strive to build a company that reflects the world around us, based on our conviction that pursuing and developing talent of all types is the right way for a business to thrive over the long haul.

Redfin provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination based on race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, and any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law. If you need accommodation in the application or recruitment process because of a disability or special need, please contact [email protected]

Redfin encourages individuals with criminal record histories to apply for employment and considers such individuals for employment consistent with the requirements of any applicable fair chance acts, including but not limited to the California, San Francisco and Los Angeles County Fair Chance Acts. Philadelphia applicants can access a copy of Philadelphia Fair Criminal Records Screening Standards ordinance poster here.

Redfin accepts applications on an ongoing basis.